Hello, friends. I am still learning to love cycling. (I'm getting better. I never dread it anymore. And sometimes, I really like it!) With that on my mind, here's a post from my archives about when feminism met technology in the form of the bicycle. --- In her Bicycle Book, Bella Bathurst quotes early American feminist Susan B. Anthony as saying, in 1896, “Let me tell you what I think of … [Read more...]
Fashion Victims, with Sarah Albee
"You know," said Sarah Albee, "this is a very strange thing to do." It was a gorgeous Sunday afternoon in Toronto and we were at the Bata Shoe Museum, about to tour their special exhibition, Fashion Victims: The Perils and Pleasures of Dress in the Nineteenth Century. Sarah and I share a lively interest in the gritty real-life details of history: disease, poison, food contamination and, of … [Read more...]